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Books. The Toilers of the Sea. Victor Hugo. Random House Publishing Group, Sep 10, 2002 - Fiction - 441 pages. Story of an illiterate fisherman from the Channel Islands who must free a ship that has run aground in order to win the hand of the woman he loves, a shipowner's daughter. Gilliat, the embattled fisherman, contends with sea storms and ...
About The Toilers of the Sea. A new translation by Scot James Hogarth for the first unabridged English edition of the novel, which tells the story of an illiterate fisherman from the Channel Islands who must free a ship that has run aground in order to win the hand of the woman he loves, a shipowner’s daughter.
Victor Hugo’s Toilers of the Sea is one of the best known of all books written about – and on – Guernsey. Completed in 1866 when Hugo was living in exile in St Peter Port ‘s Hautville House ( below ), it was originally published in French under the title Les Travailleurs de la mer. The inscription in the front of the book reads, “I ...
Toilers of the Sea: a summary. Above: The haunted house at Pleinmont that features in Toilers of the Sea. Toilers of the Sea tells the story of Gilliatt, who lives in the Bû de la Rue, a decrepit house in St Sampson. He arrived on Guernsey as a small boy, brought there by his mother, but where she came from nobody knows.
10 de sept. de 2002 · Hugo’s writing style in The Toilers of the Sea is that of a meticulous literary master and not a mere storyteller. Because of his political activism against Louis-Napoleon, Hugo fled France in 1851 and “spent the next nineteen years in exile, most of them in the Channel Islands, first on Jersey and then on Guernsey” according to Robb ...
16 de feb. de 2017 · Toilers of the Sea. Gilliatt, a Guernseyman and social pariah, falls in love with Deruchette, the niece of a local shipowner called Mess Lethierry. After Lethierry's ship is destroyed on a dangerous reef, Deruchette commits to marry whoever can return with the ship's engine. Gilliatt nominates himself, and the story follows his physical ...
19 de may. de 2009 · The toilers of the sea by Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885; Hapgood, Isabel Florence, 1850-1928, tr. Publication date 1961 Publisher New York, Heritage Press Collection
